The House Committee on Education and the Workforce held its third hearing on campus anti-Semitism today. This time the college presidents called to testify were from UCLA, Rutgers and Northwestern university. Like the first round of testimony last year, this one generated some fireworks, especially when it came to President Schill of Northwestern.
[Rep. Virginia] Foxx told the three university leaders that they should be ashamed of decisions “that allowed antisemitic encampments to endanger Jewish students,” and told Schill and Holloway they should be “doubly ashamed for capitulating” to protesters.
With rapid-fire questions — sometimes shouted — committee members demanded answers.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) described Northwestern’s resolution of the protest as a “unilateral capitulation to the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, antisemitic encampment” and asked whether it…
